Mr. Jan Hladik (UNESCO)
E-mail: j.hladik@unesco.org
tel. +998-78-1207116
Jan Hladík (Czech Republic) assumed duties as Head of the UNESCO Tashkent
Office and the UNESCO representative to Uzbekistan in November 2019. Prior to
this appointment, Jan served for more than 27 years in UNESCO. During his
professional life in UNESCO he has been working essentially in the field of
cultural heritage standard-setting instruments such as the 1954 Hague
Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed
Conflict and its two (1954 and 1999) Protocols, the 1970 Convention on the Means
of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of
Ownership of Cultural Property and the 2001 Convention on the Protection of the
Underwater Cultural Heritage. He also assumed the function of the Secretary of
statutory bodies under those Conventions. Jan graduated with honours in 1988
from the International Law Faculty of the Moscow State Institute of
International Relations (MGIMO) and obtained the title iuris doctor the same
year from the Charles University in Prague (Czechoslovakia). He published a
number of articles in professional publications and journals and participated
in a number of intergovernmental and expert meetings related to the protection
of cultural property including the March 1999 Hague Diplomatic Conference on the
Second Protocol to the Hague Convention. Jan is an expert in cultural heritage
protection law, law of armed conflicts and international public law in general.
He speaks
English, French and Russian.
